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My cousin has a friend, whose brother serves in an artillery unit in Iraq. He told us that his brother (and his comrades) only fired the guns 10 shots daily durning the war because of the concern of the health of gunners (heart I guess). Here is the question for weapon expertise. Was there such limitation on numbers of firing during WW2? Was there overheating problem for guns if firing continously? I think that artillery in FH is way too powerful. Bigger gun should be given less ammo and all guns shouldn't be deployed next to ammo boxes. What do you think?

I am not saying that artillery shouldn't have a lot of ammo. I just don't feel right about it. As we know, once a map, which has artillery deployed, starts, people just man the guns and fire for the whole game (I myself included if I can get one :) ). I need some breaks. I hope that I can make my point clear. If we give a howitzer 10 ammo, for example, after 10 shots the gunner has to destroy it and wait for it respawn in order to fire the next 10. Does it simulate the move to avoid overheating? It also gives the bombed side a break. I might think too much.

Puma2005My cousin has a friend, whose brother serves in an artillery unit in Iraq. He told us that his brother (and his comrades) only fired the guns 10 shots daily durning the war because of the concern of the health of gunners (heart I guess).

In your friend's case, they are invading a country who can't even give a decent fight back. I am sure they can afford to waste time on "operator's safety", etc.
In WWII, people were fighting for their lives, for their country, were loss was not an option, and at that time, noone could afford to worry about "operator's safety" when lifes of million were at stake

'[SYN hydraSlav']In your friend's case, they are invading a country who can't even give a decent fight back. I am sure they can afford to waste time on "operator's safety", etc.
In WWII, people were fighting for their lives, for their country, were loss was not an option, and at that time, noone could afford to worry about "operator's safety" when lifes of million were at stake

The only limitations to artillary fire would be caution with counter-battery fire, ammunition issues (German artillary offten ran out of ammunition - especialy in France), or a big push was being planned and ammunition needed to be conserved for that. Artillary is fine as is, it takes a dedicated member to man it and hit targets consistantly.

All right artillery men in WW2 rocked but I think that artillery in FH rules the maps. We complain about airplanes, the flying artillery, ruining the good maps but it seems that I am the only one who thinks that the artillery is too accurate. Just think about the maps of battle of bulge, Charlie sector, Norwind, Stalingard. Do you think that those maps are fun while the spawn points are bombed accurately by dedicated gunners? I think that artillery serves the role of suppression. They have indirect fire and shouldn't be that accurate like what we have in game.

Puma2005All right artillery men in WW2 rocked but I think that artillery in FH rules the maps. We complain about airplanes, the flying artillery, ruining the good maps but it seems that I am the only one who thinks that the artillery is too accurate. Just think about the maps of battle of bulge, Charlie sector, Norwind, Stalingard. Do you think that those maps are fun while the spawn points are bombed accurately by dedicated gunners? I think that artillery serves the role of suppression. They have indirect fire and shouldn't be that accurate like what we have in game.

You miss the point. Artillery in FH is good because it spawnkills. I only rarely see artillery being used otherwise, so I don't think they are too powerful, they are only "exploiting" one of the failures of BF42 : you spawn in the middle of nowere, always at the same place. Nerfing artillery to make them less accurate (and thus completely useless under any circumstances, even for direct fire) would make them completely useless. Besides, weren't 60% of casualties in WW2 caused by artillery?

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